A Voyeuristic View of Possibilities and Threats: Neurosciences and Education

摘要

Let me first offer a humble forewarning that I approach this topic as a voyeur, enticed by the possibilities of the neurosciences for discovering insights into the complexities of human learning and development, and yet disturbed by both its uptake in the world of practice, and equally disturbed by what I think are serious conundrums in its use in related research circles. In this commentary, I discuss what I see as generative opportunities that studies in the neurosciences offer as well as the threats that extrapolations from the basic research pose.